Quotes About Labor

Capital, therefore, announces from its first appearance a new epoch in the process of social production.

Por eso el dinero constituye el punto de arranque y el punto final de todo proceso de valorización.

No es la máquina la que trabaja, sino que se trabaja en ella, para restaurar su valor de uso.

El trabajo es por esencia la actividad carente de libertad, inhumana y asocial, cuya condición y cuyo resultado es la propiedad privada. La superación de la propiedad privada, por tanto, solo será realidad cuando se la conciba como superación del trabajo.

The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

Volume 2 of Capital has indeed been not only a 'sealed book', but also a forgotten one. To a large extent, it remains so to this very day.

Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself.

los obreros deben, en ciertas circunstancias, unirse y luchar por el aumento de sus jornales.

working day of this kind, which is formed by the succession of more or less numerous interrelated working days, I call a working period. If we speak of the working day, then we mean the length of time for which the worker must daily expend his labour-power, must work. If we speak of the working period, on the other hand, this means the number of inter-related working days that are required, in a

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.

Le royaume de la liberté commence seulement là où l'on cesse de travailler par nécessité.

La classe des ouvriers modernes, qui ne vivent qu'à la condition de trouver du travail, et qui n'en trouvent plus dès que leur travail cesse d'agrandir le capital. Les ouvriers, contraints de se vendre au jour le jour, sont une marchandise comme tout autre article de commerce ; ils subissent, par conséquent, toutes les vicissitudes de la concurrence, toutes fluctuations du marché.

Le coût de production de l'ouvrier se réduit à peu près aux moyens d'entretien dont il a besoin pour vivre et propager sa race.

Le prix moyen du travail salarié est le minimum du salaire, c'est-à-dire la somme des moyens d'existence dont l'ouvrier a besoin pour vivre en ouvrier. Par conséquent, ce que l'ouvrier s'approprie par son activité est tout juste ce qui lui est nécessaire pour entretenir une maigre existence, et pour se reproduire.

Le communisme n'enlève à personne le pouvoir de s'approprier sa part des produits sociaux, il n'ôte que le pouvoir d'assujettir, à l'aide de cette appropriation, le travail d'autrui

The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself and reproduce itself upon a constantly increasing scale, until a new and fundamental revolution in the mode of production should again overturn it, and restore the original union in a new historical form.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

En nuestra sociedad los que trabajan no adquieren y los que adquieren no trabajan.

They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the vanished status of the workman of the Middle Ages.

No eunuch flatters his tyrant more shamefully or seeks by more infamous means to stimulate his jaded appetite, in order to gain some favor, than does the eunuch of industry, the entrepreneur, in order to acquire a few silver coins or to charm the gold from the purse of his dearly beloved neighbor.

Its patriarchal society became one in which people were reduced to factors of production, with the whole system fueled by desire for export profits.

Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.

E]verything which appears in the worker as an activity of alienation , of estrangement , appears in the non-worker as a state of alienation , of estrangement .